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2 days ago
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TopLine Financial Credit Union Receives Twin Cities Best of Business 2025 Reader's Choice Award
MAPLE GROVE, Minn., June 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TopLine Financial Credit Union , a Twin Cities-based member-owned financial services cooperative , has been named the Best Credit Union in Minnesota by Twin Cities Business 2025 Best of Business Reader's Choice Poll. Twin Cities Business conducts an annual survey of their readers asking 'Which companies exemplify true excellence in their respective industries and would they confidently refer to a family member, friend or colleague?' and published results in its June/July issue and online. The communities the credit union services have recognized TopLine as one of the most appreciated and trustworthy financial institutions in Minnesota. Several qualities that make TopLine stand out include the credit union's dedication to our mission of 'Connected, We All Do Better' by providing affordable and competitive financial services, commitment of our employees to help consumers achieve their financial goals, positively making a local and global impact through community outreach activities via their TopLine Credit Union Foundation, and helping consumers with homeownership and investments. 'We are honored to receive the distinction in the Financial Services Credit Unions category of the Twin Cities Business 'Best of Business' poll,' said Mick Olson, President and CEO of TopLine Financial Credit Union. 'This recognition reflects the unwavering commitment, care, and compassion of our TopLine family of employees in supporting our members and communities and helping them achieve their financial dreams. We extend heartfelt gratitude to our members and communities for their trust and support, and congratulate all the esteemed organizations recognized this year.' Twin Cities Business is Minnesota's leading provider of business news, insight, and analysis through daily online new stories, e-newsletters, a monthly print magazine and live events. Along with their readers, they get to know the personalities of our region's most influential leaders, exploring the 'how' behind their success, strategies, and solutions. They discuss today's most pressing issues, examine trends and outlooks, and provide the context, perspective, and information leaders have come to depend on. TopLine Financial Credit Union , a Twin Cities-based credit union, is Minnesota's 9th largest credit union, with assets of over $1.1 billion and serves over 70,000 members. Established in 1935, the not-for-profit financial cooperative offers a complete line of financial services from its ten branch locations — in Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Champlin, Circle Pines, Coon Rapids, Forest Lake, Maple Grove, Plymouth, St. Francis and in St. Paul's Como Park — as well as by phone and online at . Membership is available to anyone who lives, works, worships, attends school or volunteers in Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Pine, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Washington and Wright counties in Minnesota and their immediate family members, as well as employees and retirees of Anoka Hennepin School District #11, Anoka Technical College, Federal Premium Ammunition, Hoffman Enclosures, Inc., GRACO, Inc., and their subsidiaries. Visit us on our Facebook or Instagram. To learn more about the credit union's foundation, visit CONTACT:Vicki Roscoe EricksonSenior Vice President and Chief Marketing OfficerTopLine Financial Credit Union [email protected] | 763.391.0872
Yahoo
2 days ago
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TopLine Financial Credit Union Receives Twin Cities Best of Business 2025 Reader's Choice Award
TopLine honored with 'Gold' in the Financial Services Credit Union category TopLine Financial Credit Union Receives Twin Cities Business 2025 Reader's Choice Award MAPLE GROVE, Minn., June 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TopLine Financial Credit Union, a Twin Cities-based member-owned financial services cooperative, has been named the Best Credit Union in Minnesota by Twin Cities Business 2025 Best of Business Reader's Choice Poll. Twin Cities Business conducts an annual survey of their readers asking 'Which companies exemplify true excellence in their respective industries and would they confidently refer to a family member, friend or colleague?' and published results in its June/July issue and online. The communities the credit union services have recognized TopLine as one of the most appreciated and trustworthy financial institutions in Minnesota. Several qualities that make TopLine stand out include the credit union's dedication to our mission of 'Connected, We All Do Better' by providing affordable and competitive financial services, commitment of our employees to help consumers achieve their financial goals, positively making a local and global impact through community outreach activities via their TopLine Credit Union Foundation, and helping consumers with homeownership and investments. "We are honored to receive the distinction in the Financial Services Credit Unions category of the Twin Cities Business 'Best of Business' poll," said Mick Olson, President and CEO of TopLine Financial Credit Union. "This recognition reflects the unwavering commitment, care, and compassion of our TopLine family of employees in supporting our members and communities and helping them achieve their financial dreams. We extend heartfelt gratitude to our members and communities for their trust and support, and congratulate all the esteemed organizations recognized this year." Twin Cities Business is Minnesota's leading provider of business news, insight, and analysis through daily online new stories, e-newsletters, a monthly print magazine and live events. Along with their readers, they get to know the personalities of our region's most influential leaders, exploring the 'how' behind their success, strategies, and solutions. They discuss today's most pressing issues, examine trends and outlooks, and provide the context, perspective, and information leaders have come to depend on. TopLine Financial Credit Union, a Twin Cities-based credit union, is Minnesota's 9th largest credit union, with assets of over $1.1 billion and serves over 70,000 members. Established in 1935, the not-for-profit financial cooperative offers a complete line of financial services from its ten branch locations — in Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Champlin, Circle Pines, Coon Rapids, Forest Lake, Maple Grove, Plymouth, St. Francis and in St. Paul's Como Park — as well as by phone and online at Membership is available to anyone who lives, works, worships, attends school or volunteers in Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Pine, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Washington and Wright counties in Minnesota and their immediate family members, as well as employees and retirees of Anoka Hennepin School District #11, Anoka Technical College, Federal Premium Ammunition, Hoffman Enclosures, Inc., GRACO, Inc., and their subsidiaries. Visit us on our Facebook or Instagram. To learn more about the credit union's foundation, visit CONTACT:Vicki Roscoe EricksonSenior Vice President and Chief Marketing OfficerTopLine Financial Credit Unionverickson@ | 763.391.0872 A photo accompanying this announcement is available at in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
14-05-2025
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Obituary: MSP Magazine publisher Burt Cohen, 94-and-a-half, was humble, self-aware and unfailingly witty
Reading Burt Cohen's obituary — which he wrote himself, before he died May 10, aged 94 and a half — gives you a pretty good sense of the guy. 'He was given plenty of advance notice of his imminent death, but his lifelong habit of procrastination meant he didn't write this obituary until pretty much the last minute, thereby sacrificing fact checking, proofreading and style,' he wrote. 'Readers please note.' This, said his son Jeff Cohen, is indeed what Burt Cohen was like when he wasn't behind the typewriter, too. (Because, yes, he wrote nearly everything on a typewriter including, famously, his Twitter posts.) 'He was able to have serious, reflective conversations, but always maintained a wry sense of humor,' Jeff Cohen said. 'When he was engaged with you, he was really there.' Cohen was the founding publisher of Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine as it exists today, having taken over a fledgling publication in 1978 and quickly working to build its reputation and make it profitable and sustainable. Later, he also helped launch Twin Cities Business as its founding publisher. And even after retiring, he continued writing a monthly column (print only, of course) in Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine that was, like his obituary, both kind-hearted and witty. Besides these columns, he also wrote a lot of thank-you notes, Jeff Cohen said. Whether you were a receptionist or the leader of a company, Burt Cohen recognized your personhood and appreciated what you brought to the table, Jeff Cohen said. 'He was big in terms of writing hand-written thank-you notes,' Jeff Cohen said. 'Just that spirit of appreciation, whether it was (for) a little thing or not. And in that moment of appreciation, there's a relationship, however brief, that's established, and a sense of connection. There's a pleasure in knowing the people in your community who you interact with.' (And, to be clear, Burt Cohen also appreciated what you brought to the table in a literal sense: He loved food and eating with people, Jeff Cohen said; Burt Cohen and his wife, Rusty, threw a great dinner party, and for just the family, Burt Cohen would make favorites like fried salami sandwiches.) In his self-penned obituary, Cohen notes that he 'died not of flabbiness, as had been widely predicted, but of advanced aortic stenosis, after choosing to reject the surgical procedure that would have corrected the problem,' which he compared to putting new tires on an old car. 'Almost every other body part or function was deteriorating at an accelerating rate and wouldn't have supported new tires for very long,' Cohen quotes himself as saying, in a self-aware, almost satirical style. 'The two exceptions were my appendix and my hair follicles, which were still performing well, and I feel bad they had to go with the rest.' This, too, was classic Burt Cohen, Jeff Cohen said. 'He was really good at dealing with reality, and accepting what is,' Jeff Cohen said. 'That's another legacy I take from him — rather than what we wish would be, accepting what is.' Burt Cohen was born Nov. 13, 1930, in Minneapolis. He was preceded in death by his wife of 70 years, known as Rusty, who died in 2023. He is survived by three children, Michael, Jeffery and Susan; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; and, per Burt Cohen's own reckoning, 'despite his off-putting personality, by so many, so many, so many precious friends.' Memorial services are at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 15, at Temple Israel (2323 Fremont Ave. S., Minneapolis), with shiva at 7 p.m. Hoyt Lakes near Duluth 'in ready stage' as fires continue St. Paul businesses call sinkhole timing a small blessing Woodbury names five finalists for city's top post Third wildfire prompts evacuations north of Duluth in St. Louis County Park Grove Library to close for $13.5M redesign; open house set
